Climate Change - Tropical weather season pattern different this year?

This years tropical weather season seems to be abnormally calm across the US. Apparently of the 11 named tropical storms only one "Irene" had became a hurricane. Irene is also the only system that really made landfall in continental US. All the others including Tropical Storm Don which was supposed to hit Texas pretty much disintegrated shortly before or after hitting land. In fact Texas and Oklahoma is baked for two months under the high pressure system that usually hover the four corners region in the desert southwest and so hot and dry that not even a tropical storm could relieve their drought not to mention relentless triple digit heat. Usually Florida which is supposed to be the epicenter of hurricane activity has not yet been hit head on this year. Though we don't know what will happen in September or October when in some years the season peaks. 

Hurricane Irene is unique in that Irene traveled in a very usual path. Usually hurricanes travel east to west Though this one turns northeast ward after hitting Bahamas and hugged the coast from Florida up to New York New England area. New York City had not had a landfall of a tropical storm let alone a hurricane for more than fifty years. Seems like the upper level air is traveling in an unusual pattern this summer signs of climate change. 

In conclusion with the unusual summer climate pattern and tropical storm pattern I wonder what is the world coming to. What is the next thing that is going to change? This is all a mystery. 

Global warming causes new ice age?

These years it seems like there are mixed views regarding what global warming is doing to the world. Originally people only thought that the every location of the world would be getting only just hotter and that winter might probably disappear. It was the case for quite a number of years. Though in the recent years there is discrepancy of this while there are a number of years where summers are blazing hot and winters are short and mild with barely any snow and ice. However on the flip side there are years with disabling snow storms and record low temperatures such as the winters of 2009-2010, 2010-2011

I saw the movie "The Day after Tomorrow" the scifi movie about a scientist trying to warn people the upcoming Armageddon of a sudden Freezeover as a back fire of the consequences of global warming. These movies are essentially result of theories of scientists who study the global climate cycle. Whether these events would come to play in real life is still unknown.

I notice in recent years there are unprecedented snowfall in otherwise warm southern climates such as in the winters of 2009-2010 & 2010-2011 These recent years had some weird phenomenon with In 2009 it snowed in San Francisco in early December enough to lightly cover the ground however Boston, MA did not record its first snow cover yet. That winter it seems like many places which usually rarely see snow such as the Carolinas and ice saw a wallop of it and repeatedly though Vancouver the host of the Winter Olympics in 2010 was worried that there might not be enough snow cover however a year ago they were dealing with a very harsh winter. The winter of 2010 & 2011 seems pretty cold and pretty long throughout much of the US. Though the winter seem quite normal for the Northeast though the southern states again seen repeated events of usually cold and icy weather. The winter involved freak snow events in usually year round summer places such as city of Los Angeles, Austin, and Houston and week long disabling winter storms in Atlanta. Summer was also late to arrive with many calling June "Junuary" referring to the still chilly temperatures and snow still falling in June in places like Denver. So is the climate getting hotter or colder and what has global warming has in store for us, its hard to say.

Snow in Atlanta!